What is CVE-2024-8397?

CVE-2024-8397 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Webtoffee Gdpr_cookie_consent, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2025-05-15.

How severe is CVE-2024-8397?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.

Is CVE-2024-8397 known to be exploited?

2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

XSS in Webtoffee Gdpr_cookie_consent

CVE-2024-8397

The webtoffee-gdpr-cookie-consent WordPress plugin before 2.6.1 does not properly sanitize and escape the IP headers when logging them, allowing visitors to conduct Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks. The payload gets triggered when an ad…

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.003 (18.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Webtoffee Gdpr_cookie_consent
Unknown Webtoffee-gdpr-cookie-consent — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

contact@wpscan.com (Exploit, technical-description, Third Party Advisory, exploit, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-8397?: CVE-2024-8397 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Webtoffee Gdpr_cookie_consent, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2025-05-15.
How severe is CVE-2024-8397?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-8397 known to be exploited?: 2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.